Quotes About Lasting Friendships

#1. This is the secret to finding and keeping lasting friendships: become women who want to see the women around them flourish.

Lisa-Jo Baker

#2. Even in our deepest, most lasting friendships, we never speak as openly as when we face a blank page and address a reader we do not know.

Michel Houellebecq

#3. I think in all of us there is a profound longing for friendship, a deep yearning for the satisfaction and security that close and lasting friendships can give.

Marlin K. Jensen

#4. Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

Timothy Ferriss

#5. The loving person makes other people feel good, and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong, long-lasting friendships.

Benjamin Spock

#6. I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge.

Kurt Busch

#7. It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

Ford Madox Ford

#8. She ordered a coffee, and I ordered something I had no interest in drinking, so long as she was around.

Philip Kerr

#9. The consciousness of Divine friendship in devotion, so far from being impaired, is deepened by holy veneration. The purest and most lasting human friendships are permeated with an element of reverence; much more this friendship of a man with God.

Austin Phelps

#10. Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.

Jay Samit

#11. The difference between that man and me," Alan Mendelsohn said, "is that I am a connoisseur, and he is a fanatic.

Daniel Pinkwater

#12. Jim Rowe and George Reedy had made him understand the growing importance in liberal intellectual circles of thirty-nine-year-old Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., a noted Harvard historian with a gift for incisive phrasemaking,

Robert A. Caro

#13. Two things are owed to truthfulness: lasting marriages and short friendships.

Robert Breault

#14. Know this about yourself: there is only one reason professional salespeople lose orders-- they are outsold.

Jim Holden

#15. We must realize that artists are not in competition with each other. Help the young artists - find for them means to make their financial ways easier, that they may develop and fruit their fullest - but let us not ask them to please us in doing it.

Robert Henri

#16. The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex ... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges.

Marilyn Monroe

#17. Everybody who plays me plays me so hard because they always want to beat me.

Serena Williams

#18. To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent.

Johan Cruyff

#19. Parking in Seattle is an eight-step process. Step one, find a place to park (gooood luuuuck!). Step two, back into the angled parking space (who ever innovated that should be sentenced to the chokey).

Maria Semple

#20. History is as much an art as a science.

Ernest Renan

#21. All are friends in heaven, all faithful friends,
And many friendships in the days of Time
Begun, are lasting there and growing still.

Robert Pollok

#22. One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made.

Carroll O'Connor

#23. John D. Rockefeller said that he found friendships based on business to be far more long lasting and profitable than the reverse. I think there's something to that. A company can end up being very Confucian, where the good of the individual is subjugated to the good of the whole.

Ben Horowitz

#24. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

Simon Pegg